Category: Felix
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ScreenShots-Devices
Devices Felix Devices provide names for physical hardware devices, and translate the values returned by the hardware into values that make sense to us: There are several different Device types. Here’s the configuration for a “Formula Input Device”, a 1-wire input device whose final output is calculated by a user-entered formula: Here’s a Switch Output…
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Applications
What can you do with Felix? Well, it really depends on what you want to do. We have a long-term goal to make our automation save us real money. We want it to save energy by optimising our heating, ventilation, and pool filtration. We want to save water by more intelligently managing the watering system.…
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ScreenShots
Some Screenshots Here are a few screenshots to give you a rough idea of the interface. Graphic design isn’t our top area of expertise, so Felix isn’t as pretty as some other products. But the good news is that you can re-design the interface yourself! All the screens are based on HTML templates and CSS.…
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Technology
Technology Internal Structure Felix is written in C and compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ version 6. The program contains the following modules: Felix is compiled into a single executable of about 350kb. It doesn’t really need an install program, but we provide one anyway. All it does is copy the files to the “Program Files\Felix”…
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Concepts
Some Concepts Devices We need to explain about Devices. Devices (with a capital D) provide an isolation layer above the physical hardware. If you want to know the outside temperature, for example, you don’t want to have to refer to sensor B4000800DB2A1610, and then figure how to translate its raw input value. You just want…
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Features
Features Felix has been in use since early 2006, and has accumulated the following features: Easy to install and configure. Just run the setup and start the program Runs on a low powered Windows machine with no particular hardware requirements. Felix typically occupies less than 5Mb of memory, so just about any machine running Windows…
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Felix
This is the home of Felix, a piece of software to monitor and control your home from anywhere in the world. Felix is very flexible and very reliable, but it is currently over-complex due initial development concepts and is currently undergoing redevelopment. What can Felix currently do? Felix can be used to monitor and…